• BloodyDeed@feddit.ch
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    1 year ago

    This is so true. I feel like my main job as a senior software engineer is to keep the bloat low and delete unused code. Its very easy to write code - maintaining it and focusing on the important bits is hard.

    This will be one of the biggest and most challenging problems Computer Science will have to solve in the coming years and decades.

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      It’s easy and fun to write new code, and it wins management’s respect. The harder work of maintaining and improving large code bases and data goes mostly unappreciated.